Poovan banana and the other stories

By:

Vaikkaṃ Muhammad Basheer

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Orient BlackSwan 2009Description: 216 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

8125003231

Subject(s):

Short Stories

DDC classification:

894.81236 BAS-P

Summary: This carefully selected collection of Vaikom Muhammad Basheer\\\'s short stories have been translated by V. Abdulla. Basheer\\\'s writings are characterized by a variety of theme and tone. He has enshrined in them every kind of experience from the pangs of hunger and sex to the rapture of mystic vision. Its range includes stark realistic pictures of the material world as well as the realm of fantasy haunted by ghosts and Basheer has written on love and hate, on politicians and pickpockets, on the fancies of childhood and on the disillusionments of adult life with an intense sense of the tragedy of life and at the same time an irrepressible sense of humour.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics		894.81236 BAS-P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		DCB2395
Book	Dept. of Kerala Studies General Stacks	Dept. of Kerala Studies	Fiction	823.01 VAI.P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		DKS6691

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This carefully selected collection of Vaikom Muhammad Basheer\\\'s short stories have been translated by V. Abdulla. Basheer\\\'s writings are characterized by a variety of theme and tone. He has enshrined in them every kind of experience from the pangs of hunger and sex to the rapture of mystic vision. Its range includes stark realistic pictures of the material world as well as the realm of fantasy haunted by ghosts and Basheer has written on love and hate, on politicians and pickpockets, on the fancies of childhood and on the disillusionments of adult life with an intense sense of the tragedy of life and at the same time an irrepressible sense of humour.

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